We begin the day's review with stories on the front pages of both the Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times about the IGP's assurance of peace during the ongoing biometric voters registration exercise. The former reports that "Police to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers – IGP". The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has warned that the police will deal resolutely with people who foment trouble at registration centres during the ongoing biometric voters registration exercise. He assured all qualified applicants that their safety was guaranteed and urged them to go out in their numbers to register to enable them to exercise their franchise in the December general election. The Ghanaian Times employs the headline IGP assures all eligible voters of protection in reporting the same story. The Inspector-General of Police, Paul Tawiah Quaye, has assured Ghanaians of maximum police protection against the activities of miscreants and hooligans during the on-going biometric voter registration exercise.
Still with regards to the registration exercise, Student politicians urged to educate people on biometric voting. Representatives of the four political parties have called on the youth, especially the educated, to make use of their technological knowledge to preach for peaceful election in the coming election. The Ghanaian Times adds that they were also to use their various platforms to educate members of their community about the importance of the biometric registration exercise.
More education on the registration exercise as Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) Ghana, a non-profit women centered NGO, has trained 75 young people between the ages of 18 to 25 years as peer educators to sensitize their peers to the biometric voter registration in three districts. Covering the headline Peer educators to sensitize peers to registration exercise, the Daily Graphic in addition adds that the districts are Akatsi in the Volta Region, Ga West in the Greater Accra and Suhum Kraboa Coaltar in the Eastern Region. It is formed part of a series of activities to engage young men and women in the 2012 general elections.
Following the hitches experienced in the voters' registration exercise, the District Chief Executive for the Talensi-Nabdam District Assembly, Vivian Anafo has suggested an increase in the number of technical personnel engaged in the ongoing biometric registration exercise organized by the Electoral Commission (EC). She said this would help facilitate the process in a quick pace and also ensure that officials deployed to centres could contain the pressure, as well as the crowd that may show up during the exercise. This is what The Heritage newspaper reports under the caption "EC urged to deploy more facilitators in the biometric registration".
Also in the Ghanaian Times, the EC has been urged to Extend the biometric registration period. The New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate for the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo Constituency of the Northern Region, Mr. Solomon N. Boar, has appealed to the Electoral Commission to consider extending the time and the number of days for the registration exercise, especially in the constituency. Speaking to the Times on telephone, Mr. Boar explained that "a lot of people would be disenfranchised in the December general elections because some of the constituencies are very large and, therefore, it is necessary that people walk long distances before they can reach the registration centres.
The boundary dispute that ensued between Arigu and Guborigu communities near Pwalugu in the Upper East region leading to four persons with various degrees of injuries is expected to be resolved amicably as the Northern and Upper East Regional Security Councils (REGSECs) have resolved to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Boundary Council. The on-going Biometric Voter Registration at Guborigu was disrupted on Monday March 26.The Guborigu people accused the Arigu people for the attack and subsequently arson on their houses that caused major loss of food stuff belonging to Guborigu residents. This is how The Chronicle reports that Northern and Upper East REGSECs move to resolve Arigu and Guborigu boundary dispute.
Away from the ongoing registration exercise and to political party activities, Bodies to Enforce Parties Code of Conduct has been Inaugurated. Three separate bodies that would enforce the political parties' code of conduct for the December general elections in the Greater Accra, Eastern and the Volta regions have been inaugurated in Koforidua. Additionally, the Daily Graphic adds that the three bodies each with representation from the police, political parties, the clergy and the National Commission on Civil Education are headed by Monsignor Anthony Konu, Dr. Emmanuel Agyeman Manu and Dr. Emmanuel Djokoto all from the Catholic Secretariat representing the Volta, Eastern and the Greater Accra regions respectively.
As we round up on the day's review, the Daily Graphic reports that The Great consolidated Popular Party,(GCPP)is to host its National delegate's congress in May, this year, in preparation toward the December7,2012 general election, with the headline GCPP to go to congress in May. Dr. Henry H. Lartey, the chairman of the GCPP, said this during an interaction with newsmen in Sunyani in the company of some GCPP officials after going round to see how the biometric voter's registration got off in Sunyani.
This daily news review is compiled by African Elections Project (AEP) Media Monitoring Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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